{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. x.</span>—13. Therefore Cyprian writes to Jubaianus as\r\nfollows, \"concerning the baptism of heretics, who, being\r\nplaced without, and set down out of the Church,\" seem to\r\nhim to \"claim to themselves a matter over which they have\r\nneither right nor power. Which we,\" he says, \"cannot<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_62\">[Pg 62]</a></span>\r\naccount valid or lawful, since it is clear that among them it\r\nis unlawful.\"<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_128_128\">[128]</a> Neither, indeed, do we deny that a man who\r\nis baptized among heretics, or in any schism outside the\r\nChurch, derives no profit from it so far as he is partner in\r\nthe perverseness of the heretics and schismatics; nor do we\r\nhold that those who baptize, although they confer the real\r\ntrue sacrament of baptism, are yet acting rightly, in gathering\r\nadherents outside the Church, and entertaining opinions\r\ncontrary to the Church. But it is one thing to be without a\r\nsacrament, another thing to be in possession of it wrongly,\r\nand to usurp it unlawfully. Therefore they do not cease to\r\nbe sacraments of Christ and the Church, merely because they\r\nare unlawfully used, not only by heretics, but by all kinds of\r\nwicked and impious persons. These, indeed, ought to be corrected\r\nand punished, but the sacraments should be acknowledged\r\nand revered.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-108"},{"context_html":"<p>14. Cyprian, indeed, says that on this subject not one, but\r\ntwo or more Councils were held; always, however, in Africa.\r\nFor indeed in one he mentions that seventy-one bishops had\r\nbeen assembled,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_128_128\">[128]</a>—to all whose authority we do not hesitate,\r\nwith all due deference to Cyprian, to prefer the authority, supported\r\nby many more bishops, of the whole Church spread\r\nthroughout the whole world, of which Cyprian himself rejoiced\r\nthat he was an inseparable member.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-109"},{"context_html":"<p>15. Nor is the water \"profane and adulterous\"<a id=\"FNanchor_128_128\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_128_128\">[128]</a> over which\r\nthe name of God is invoked, even though it be invoked by\r\nprofane and adulterous persons; because neither the creature\r\nitself of water, nor the name invoked, is adulterous. But the\r\nbaptism of Christ, consecrated by the words of the gospel, is\r\nnecessarily holy, however polluted and unclean its ministers\r\nmay be; because its inherent sanctity cannot be polluted, and\r\nthe divine excellence abides in its sacrament, whether to the\r\nsalvation of those who use it aright, or to the destruction of\r\nthose who use it wrong. Would you indeed maintain that,\r\nwhile the light of the sun or of a candle, diffused through\r\nunclean places, contracts no foulness in itself therefrom, yet\r\nthe baptism of Christ can be defiled by the sins of any man,\r\nwhatsoever he may be? For if we turn our thoughts to the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_63\">[Pg 63]</a></span>\r\nvisible materials themselves, which are to us the medium of\r\nthe sacraments, every one must know that they admit of corruption.\r\nBut if we think on that which they convey to us,\r\nwho can fail to see that it is incorruptible, however much the\r\nmen through whose ministry it is conveyed are either being\r\nrewarded or punished for the character of their lives?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-110"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"503ea8ad3f487ecfbc61d90379ed7b71481f8e87edab0b312e8e6acf0a167b13","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_128_128","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. 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